A method and apparatus of a device that starts an address resolution service on a network element after a boot-up of this network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element sends an indication of the boot-up. The network element further sends a request for an address resolution table and receives a reply with the requested address resolution table. In addition, the network element starts the address resolution service using the requested address resolution table.
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1. A network element, coupled to a peer network element in a multi-chassis link aggregation topology, that performs a method to start an address resolution service after a boot-up, the method comprising: receiving an indication of the boot-up; sending a request for an address resolution table to the peer network element; receiving a reply with the requested address resolution table from the peer network element; and starting the address resolution service using the requested address resolution table.
2. The network element of claim 1 , wherein the network element is implemented as a first hop gateway.
3. The network element of claim 1 , wherein the network element provides access to a network layer for a plurality of devices in a different network layer.
4. The network element of claim 3 , wherein the network element is implemented to provide access to a layer 3 network for a plurality of devices in a layer 2 network.
5. The network element of claim 1 , wherein the address resolution service is an Address Resolution Protocol Service.
6. The network element of claim 1 , wherein the resolution table is a serialized table.
7. A method of starting an address resolution service after a boot-up, the method comprising: receiving an indication of the boot-up of a network element; sending a request for an address resolution table from the network element to a peer network element coupled to the network element in a multi-chassis link aggregation topology; receiving, by the network element, a reply with the requested address resolution table from the peer network element; and starting the address resolution service using the requested address resolution table.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the network element is implemented as a first hop gateway.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the network element provides access to a network layer for a plurality of devices in a different network layer.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the network element is implemented to provide access to a layer 3 network for a plurality of devices in a layer 2 network.
11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the address resolution service is an Address Resolution Protocol Service.
12. A network element that start an address resolution service after a boot-up, the network element comprising: an address resolution table; and a synchronize module, coupled to the address resolution table, wherein the synchronize module receives an indication of the boot-up, sends a request for a second address resolution table to a peer network element coupled to the network element in a multi-chassis link aggregation topology, receives a reply with the requested second address resolution table from the peer network element, and starts the address resolution service using the requested second address resolution table.
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February 2, 2016
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